A Conference on Governance

So the International Policy Governance Association is putting on a conference--on what else but Policy Governance. The conference is titled "The Future of Boards: Realizing the Promise of Owner-Accountability" and will be held in Chicago, June 10-12, 2004. I am really looking forward to this learning experience from some of the experienced practitioners and consultants in the field today. I have been to several recent seminars on this topic and the approach is to talk about "best practices" in response to the obviously broken parts of the board governance system. They usually tell some stories about a board of director's dysfunctionality, make the audience laugh because everyone has faced some similar dysfunctionality and they the propose some fix for that particular problem.

In the Policy Governance model, the whole system is addressed and a new paradigm is built around some real or perceived value added that the board of directors brings to an organization. This is described as linkage between the ownership and the organization. The values brought by the board then are reduced to an explicit, written form of policies in four categories: ends, limitations or means, board-staff partnership, and board process.

Because I have had the opportunity to serve on several boards and work for one over the years I understand the need for addressing these issues with great clarity. I hope that my experience at this conference proves valuable for my work with MEDA providing technical assistance to community-based and faith-based organizations and for use with other organizations in the future. I will let you know how it progresses.

It appears to be working here

In the past, we would have some down time on the blog server and we just had
to wait for it to start working again. I haven't noticed that for a long
time now. I know that Blogger is a lot more capitalized now that Google
bought them. So I would expect less trouble.

Let's see if it continues to work ok.

test post

I am posting this because when I tried to go to the page with pwwcrfamily web name I get an error message.

New Orleans

Beth and I had a wonderful time in New Orleans. We listened to live music every night, walked down every street in the French Quarter at least twice and ate well!!!!!
Even the rain and lightening was an event. What a place to people watch. What a delightful place to spend a couple of days.

New Orleans

Beth and I just returned from New Orleans. We found a house for sale, looks pretty inviting. Good Colleges nearby.



A nice little home in the garden section of New Orleans. $840,000.00



A great place to people watch until it rains.

On the news

this morning: there is talk that Mr. Parks may be running for Mayor of Los Angeles.

One more event at JobStarts

The kind folks at JobStarts put on an event Saturday at the home of one of the board members. It was nice to have mom, Beth and Rob show up. I think Beth had fun chatting it up with Bernard Parks, Eighth District Los Angeles City Council.

All 10 of them

Today was their first day outside in the sunshine! Two weeks to go until we meet them and pick one to be Sam 2.

Waffles

I think waffles would be a great idea!

Beautiful pictures

Here as a picture I told last weekend. A beautiful spring day.

The little guy

I have always like Calvin. If he could only join the Kings and stir them up. Isn't there supposed to be "chevy" or "ford" under him. Oh, by the way Rob, we are expecting you to answer all the questions Kyle has about college. No pressure there but if he struggle's it will not be our fault. Besides there is not forgiveness for turning my son into a Dodger's hat wearing guy. E-mail any pictures you want on this site. I will post them for you. There has a be a way to post music so if you have a sound clip in the form of a wave file I would like to hear the song you mentioned. My funeral song is "Time to Say Goodbye" sung by Sarah Brightman. With all the trades I don't have a clue about who is on the Giants, except for that player who never used an illegal performance enhancing substance. The way the Kings are playing I will probably have more time to watch the RiverCats. And there is no giving up on anyone. ever. never. nada. though in those times I gave up on myself I was always greatful that others believed in me more than I believed in myself.

New addition to the blog

I saw this little guy on another blog and stole him. He is now dancing in our template for the time being. Any comments?